Well, it isnāt just large language models that make mistakes. Humans can too! Including this human.
In EV#412, I missed out a single word which inverted the meaning of a paragraph. In the section on the horse race between OpenAI and Google (including Deepmind), I meant to write:
Horse race.Ā Given the feverish uptake of LLMs like GPT-3, why didĀ Deepmind notĀ get out of the gate first?Ā Jonathan Godwin, a formerĀ DeepmindĀ engineer, argues it comes down to company culture. OpenAI is an engineering organisation, whereasĀ DeepmindĀ is a research organisation. My view is this is credible: the engineering company ships products, such as ChatGPT. Products are evolving answers to open-ended questions. A research company builds answers to more well-defined research questions. AlphaFold addresses the protein folding problem. Product/engineering companies ship, learn, ship, learn, ship, learn. A far cry from the discipline of scientific research.
I left out the word ānotā (in bold above). My point was toā¦